Is TR still among us?

"This is merely the plan, already tested and found wanting, of giving prosperity to the big men on top, and trusting to their mercy to let something leak through to the mass of their countrymen below -- which, in effect, means that there shall be no attempt to regulate the ferocious scramble in which greed and cunning reap the largest rewards."

Theodore Roosevelt, quoted by Edmund Morris, who is working on the third volume of a biography of the president who served from 1901 to 1909.